@String(PAMI = {IEEE TPAMI})
@string(ACMMM = {ACM Multimedia})
@String(TSMC = {IEEE TSMC})
@string(ICME  =   {IEEE ICME})
@string(TMM   =   {IEEE TMM})
@string(CSVT  =   {IEEE TCSVT})

@string(CVPR= {Proceedings of the IEEE conference on computer vision and pattern recognition.})
@string(CVPRW= {Proceedings of the IEEE conference on computer vision and pattern recognition Workshops.})
@string(ICCV= {Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision.})
@string(NIPS= {Proceedings of Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems.}),
@string(ECCV= {Proceedings of the European Conference on Computer Vision.})
@string(BMVC= {Brit. Mach. Vis. Conf.})
@string(ICIP = {Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Image Processing.})
@string(IJCAI= {Preceding of the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence.})

@string(ACMMM= {ACM Int. Conf. Multimedia})
@string(ICME = {Int. Conf. Multimedia and Expo})
@string(ICPR = {Int. Conf. Pattern Recog.})
@string(ICLR = {Proceedings of the International Conference on Learning Representations})

@string(SPL = {IEEE Signal Processing Letters})
@string(IJCV = {International Journal of Computer Vision.})
@string(PAMI = {IEEE Transaction on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence})
@string(PR   = {Pattern Recognition})
@string(TIP  = {IEEE Transaction on Image Processing.})
@string(CSVT = {IEEE Trans. Circuit Syst. Video Technol.})
@string(VR   = {Vis. Res.})
@string(JOV  = {J. Vis.})
@string(TMM  = {IEEE Trans. Multimedia})
@string(CGF  = {Comput. Graph. Forum})
@string(TVC  = {The Vis. Comput.})
@string(JCST  = {J. Comput. Sci. Tech.})

@inproceedings{margolin2014evaluate,
  title={How to evaluate foreground maps?},
  author={Margolin, Ran and Zelnik-Manor, Lihi and Tal, Ayellet},
  booktitle={CVPR},
  pages={248--255},
  year={2014}
}

@inproceedings{busa2015online,
  title={Online F-measure optimization},
  author={Busa-Fekete, R{\'o}bert and Sz{\"o}r{\'e}nyi, Bal{\'a}zs and Dembczynski, Krzysztof and H{\"u}llermeier, Eyke},
  booktitle={NeurIPS},
  pages={595--603},
  year={2015}
}

@InProceedings{MartinFTM01,
  author = {D. Martin and C. Fowlkes and D. Tal and J. Malik},
  title = {A Database of Human Segmented Natural Images and its
           Application to Evaluating Segmentation Algorithms and
           Measuring Ecological Statistics},
  booktitle = {ICCV},
  year = {2001},
  volume = {2},
  pages = {416--423}
}

% use F-measure in saliency
@inproceedings{achanta2009frequency,
  title={Frequency-tuned salient region detection},
  author={Achanta, Radhakrishna and Hemami, Sheila and Estrada, Francisco and Susstrunk, Sabine},
  booktitle={CVPR},
  pages={1597--1604},
  year={2009},
}

@article{liu2011learning,
  title={Learning to detect a salient object},
  author={Liu, Tie and Yuan, Zejian and Sun, Jian and Wang, Jingdong and Zheng, Nanning and Tang, Xiaoou and Shum, Heung-Yeung},
  journal={IEEE PAMI},
  volume={33},
  number={2},
  pages={353--367},
  year={2011},
}

# ECSSD
@inproceedings{yan2013hierarchical,
  title={Hierarchical saliency detection},
  author={Yan, Qiong and Xu, Li and Shi, Jianping and Jia, Jiaya},
  booktitle={CVPR},
  pages={1155--1162},
  year={2013},
}

@inproceedings{LiYu15,
        author = "Li, G. and Yu, Y.",
        title = "Visual Saliency Based on Multiscale Deep Features",
        booktitle = {CVPR},
        pages = "5455-5463",
        year = "2015"
}

@inproceedings{li2014secrets,
  title={The secrets of salient object segmentation},
  author={Li, Yin and Hou, Xiaodi and Koch, Christof and Rehg, James M and Yuille, Alan L},
  booktitle = {CVPR},
  pages = "280-287",
  year={2014},
}

@inproceedings{wang2019iterative,
  title={An Iterative and Cooperative Top-down and Bottom-up Inference Network for Salient Object Detection},
  author={Wang, Wenguan and Shen, Jianbing and Cheng, Ming-Ming and Shao, Ling},
  booktitle={CVPR},
  pages={5968--5977},
  year={2019}
}

@inproceedings{wang2019salient,
  title={Salient Object Detection With Pyramid Attention and Salient Edges},
  author={Wang, Wenguan and Zhao, Shuyang and Shen, Jianbing and Hoi, Steven CH and Borji, Ali},
  booktitle={CVPR},
  pages={1448--1457},
  year={2019}
}

@inproceedings{wang2018salient,
  title={Salient object detection driven by fixation prediction},
  author={Wang, Wenguan and Shen, Jianbing and Dong, Xingping and Borji, Ali},
  booktitle={CVPR},
  pages={1711--1720},
  year={2018}
}

@inproceedings{movahedi2010design,
  title={Design and perceptual validation of performance measures for salient object segmentation},
  author={Movahedi, Vida and Elder, James H},
  booktitle={CVPR-workshop},
  pages={49--56},
  year={2010},
}

@article{wang2019salientsurvey,
  title={Salient Object Detection in the Deep Learning Era: An In-Depth Survey},
  author={Wang, Wenguan and Lai, Qiuxia and Fu, Huazhu and Shen, Jianbing and Ling, Haibin},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:1904.09146},
  year={2019}
}

@inproceedings{long2015fully,
  title={Fully convolutional networks for semantic segmentation},
  author={Long, Jonathan and Shelhamer, Evan and Darrell, Trevor},
  booktitle={CVPR},
  pages={3431--3440},
  year={2015}
}

@inproceedings{xie2015holistically,
  title={Holistically-nested edge detection},
  author={Xie, Saining and Tu, Zhuowen},
  booktitle={ICCV},
  pages={1395--1403},
  year={2015}
}

@article{li2015visual,
  title={Visual saliency based on multiscale deep features},
  author={Li, Guanbin and Yu, Yizhou},
  journal={CVPR},
  year={2015}
}

@inproceedings{jia2014caffe,
  title={Caffe: Convolutional architecture for fast feature embedding},
  author={Jia, Yangqing and Shelhamer, Evan and Donahue, Jeff and Karayev, Sergey and Long, Jonathan and Girshick, Ross and Guadarrama, Sergio and Darrell, Trevor},
  booktitle={ACMM},
  pages={675--678},
  year={2014},
}
% RFCN
@inproceedings{wang2016saliency,
  title={Saliency detection with recurrent fully convolutional networks},
  author={Wang, Linzhao and Wang, Lijun and Lu, Huchuan and Zhang, Pingping and Ruan, Xiang},
  booktitle={ECCV},
  pages={825--841},
  year={2016},
}

% DHS
@inproceedings{liu2016dhsnet,
  title={Dhsnet: Deep hierarchical saliency network for salient object detection},
  author={Liu, Nian and Han, Junwei},
  booktitle={CVPR},
  pages={678--686},
  year={2016},
}

% DCL
@inproceedings{li2016deep,
  title={Deep contrast learning for salient object detection},
  author={Li, Guanbin and Yu, Yizhou},
  booktitle={CVPR},
  pages={478--487},
  year={2016}
}

% DSS
@article{hou2017deeply,
  title={Deeply supervised salient object detection with short connections},
  author={Hou, Qibin and Cheng, Ming-Ming and Hu, Xiaowei and Borji, Ali and Tu, Zhuowen and Torr, Philip},
  year  = {2019},
  volume={41}, 
  number={4}, 
  pages={815-828}, 
  journal= {IEEE TPAMI},
  doi = {10.1109/TPAMI.2018.2815688},
}

% VGGNet
@inproceedings{simonyan2014very,
  title={Very deep convolutional networks for large-scale image recognition},
  author={Simonyan, Karen and Zisserman, Andrew},
  booktitle={ICLR},
  year={2015}
}

@article{zhang2017amulet,
  title={Amulet: Aggregating Multi-level Convolutional Features for Salient Object Detection},
  author={Zhang, Pingping and Wang, Dong and Lu, Huchuan and Wang, Hongyu and Ruan, Xiang},
  journal={ICCV},
  year={2017}
}
% MSRA10K
@article{cheng2015global,
  title={Global contrast based salient region detection},
  author={Cheng, Ming-Ming and Mitra, Niloy J and Huang, Xiaolei and Torr, Philip HS and Hu, Shi-Min},
  journal={IEEE PAMI},
  volume={37},
  number={3},
  pages={569--582},
  year={2015},
}

@article{van1974foundation,
  title={Foundation of evaluation},
  author={Van Rijsbergen, Cornelis Joost},
  journal={Journal of Documentation},
  volume={30},
  number={4},
  pages={365--373},
  year={1974},
}

% old saliency detection methods
@article{itti1998model,
  title={A model of saliency-based visual attention for rapid scene analysis},
  author={Itti, Laurent and Koch, Christof and Niebur, Ernst},
  journal={IEEE PAMI},
  volume={20},
  number={11},
  pages={1254--1259},
  year={1998},
}

@inproceedings{klein2011center,
  title={Center-surround divergence of feature statistics for salient object detection},
  author={Klein, Dominik A and Frintrop, Simone},
  booktitle={ICCV},
  pages={2214--2219},
  year={2011},
}

@inproceedings{borji2012exploiting,
  title={Exploiting local and global patch rarities for saliency detection},
  author={Borji, Ali and Itti, Laurent},
  booktitle={CVPR},
  pages={478--485},
  year={2012},
}

@article{borji2015salient,
  title={Salient object detection: A benchmark},
  author={Borji, Ali and Cheng, Ming-Ming and Jiang, Huaizu and Li, Jia},
  journal={TIP},
  volume={24},
  number={12},
  pages={5706--5722},
  year={2015},
}

@inproceedings{dembczynski2013optimizing,
  title={Optimizing the F-measure in multi-label classification: Plug-in rule approach versus structured loss minimization},
  author={Dembczynski, Krzysztof and Jachnik, Arkadiusz and Kotlowski, Wojciech and Waegeman, Willem and H{\"u}llermeier, Eyke},
  booktitle={ICML},
  pages={1130--1138},
  year={2013}
}
@inproceedings{petterson2010reverse,
  title={Reverse multi-label learning},
  author={Petterson, James and Caetano, Tib{\'e}rio S},
  booktitle={NeurIPS},
  pages={1912--1920},
  year={2010}
}
@inproceedings{petterson2011submodular,
  title={Submodular multi-label learning},
  author={Petterson, James and Caetano, Tib{\'e}rio S},
  booktitle={NeurIPS},
  pages={1512--1520},
  year={2011}
}
@inproceedings{lewis1995evaluating,
  title={Evaluating and optimizing autonomous text classification systems},
  author={Lewis, David D},
  booktitle={Proceedings of the annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval},
  pages={246--254},
  year={1995},
}
@inproceedings{chai2005expectation,
  title={Expectation of F-measures: Tractable exact computation and some empirical observations of its properties},
  author={Chai, Kian Ming Adam},
  booktitle={Proceedings of the annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval},
  pages={593--594},
  year={2005},
}
@inproceedings{jansche2007maximum,
  title={A maximum expected utility framework for binary sequence labeling},
  author={Jansche, Martin},
  booktitle={Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association of Computational Linguistics},
  pages={736--743},
  year={2007}
}
@inproceedings{dembczynski2011exact,
  title={An exact algorithm for F-measure maximization},
  author={Dembczynski, Krzysztof J and Waegeman, Willem and Cheng, Weiwei and H{\"u}llermeier, Eyke},
  booktitle={NeurIPS},
  pages={1404--1412},
  year={2011}
}
@article{quevedo2012multilabel,
  title={Multilabel classifiers with a probabilistic thresholding strategy},
  author={Quevedo, Jos{\'e} Ram{\'o}n and Luaces, Oscar and Bahamonde, Antonio},
  journal={Pattern Recognition},
  volume={45},
  number={2},
  pages={876--883},
  year={2012},
}


@inproceedings{nan2012optimizing,
  title={Optimizing F-measures: a tale of two approaches},
  author={Ye, Nan and Chai, Kian Ming A and Lee, Wee Sun and Chieu, Hai Leong},
  booktitle={ICML},
  pages={1555--1562},
  year={2012},
}

# Dense-CRF
@inproceedings{krahenbuhl2011efficient,
  title={Efficient inference in fully connected crfs with gaussian edge potentials},
  author={Kr{\"a}henb{\"u}hl, Philipp and Koltun, Vladlen},
  booktitle={NeurIPS},
  pages={109--117},
  year={2011}
}

@inproceedings{lin2017feature,
  title={Feature pyramid networks for object detection},
  author={Lin, Tsung-Yi and Doll{\'a}r, Piotr and Girshick, Ross and He, Kaiming and Hariharan, Bharath and Belongie, Serge},
  booktitle={CVPR},
  year={2017}
}

# deepcontour
@inproceedings{shen2015deepcontour,
  title={Deepcontour: A deep convolutional feature learned by positive-sharing loss for contour detection},
  author={Shen, Wei and Wang, Xinggang and Wang, Yan and Bai, Xiang and Zhang, Zhijiang},
  booktitle={CVPR},
  pages={3982--3991},
  year={2015}
}
# SOC
@article{dpfan2018soc,
  author    = {Deng{-}Ping Fan and
               Jiangjiang Liu and
               Shanghua Gao and
               Qibin Hou and
               Ali Borji and
               Ming{-}Ming Cheng},
  title     = {Salient Objects in Clutter: Bringing Salient Object Detection to the
               Foreground},
  journal   = {ECCV},
  year      = {2018},
}

@article{uijlings2013selective,
  title={Selective search for object recognition},
  author={Uijlings, Jasper RR and Van De Sande, Koen EA and Gevers, Theo and Smeulders, Arnold WM},
  journal={IJCV},
  volume={104},
  number={2},
  pages={154--171},
  year={2013},
}

@inproceedings{deng2018edge,
  title={Learning to predict crisp boundaries},
  author={Ruoxi Deng and Chunhua Shen and Shengjun Liu and Huibing Wang and Xinru Liu},
  booktitle={ECCV},
  year={2018},
}

@Article{bsds500,
 author = {Arbelaez, Pablo and Maire, Michael and Fowlkes, Charless and Malik, Jitendra},
 title = {Contour Detection and Hierarchical Image Segmentation},
 journal = {IEEE PAMI},
 volume = {33},
 number = {5},
 year = {2011},
 issn = {0162-8828},
 pages = {898--916},
}

@inproceedings{yang2013saliency,
title={Saliency detection via graph-based manifold ranking},
author={Yang, Chuan and Zhang, Lihe and Lu, Huchuan and Ruan, Xiang and Yang, Ming-Hsuan},
booktitle={CVPR},
pages={3166--3173},
year={2013},
}

@inproceedings{fan2019shifting,
  title={Shifting more attention to video salient object detection},
  author={Fan, Deng-Ping and Wang, Wenguan and Cheng, Ming-Ming and Shen, Jianbing},
  booktitle={CVPR},
  pages={8554--8564},
  year={2019}
}

@inproceedings{Liu2019PoolSal,
  title={A Simple Pooling-Based Design for Real-Time Salient Object Detection},
  author={Jiang-Jiang Liu and Qibin Hou and Ming-Ming Cheng and Jiashi Feng and Jianmin Jiang},
  booktitle={CVPR},
  year={2019},
}

@Article{BorjiCVM2019,
  author="Borji, Ali and Cheng, Ming-Ming and Hou, Qibin and Jiang, Huaizu and Li, Jia",
  title="Salient object detection: A survey",
  journal="Computational Visual Media",
  year="2019",
  volume="5",
  number="2",
  pages="117--150",
  issn="2096-0662",
  doi="10.1007/s41095-019-0149-9",
}

@inproceedings{zhao2018hifi,
  title     = {Hi-{F}i: Hierarchical Feature Integration for Skeleton Detection},
  author    = {Kai Zhao and Wei Shen and Shanghua Gao and Dandan Li and Ming-Ming Cheng},
  booktitle = {IJCAI},
  pages     = {1191--1197},
  year      = {2018},
  month     = {7},
  doi       = {10.24963/ijcai.2018/166},
  url       = {http://kaizhao.net/hifi},
}

@InProceedings{zhao2019EGNet,
author = {Jiaxing Zhao and Jiangjiang liu and Dengping Fan and Yang Cao and Jufeng Yang and Ming-Ming Cheng},
title = {EGNet:Edge Guidance Network for Salient Object Detection},
booktitle = {ICCV},
month = {Oct},
year = {2019}
}

@article{gao2019res2net,
  title={Res2Net: A New Multi-scale Backbone Architecture},
  author={Gao, Shang-Hua and Cheng, Ming-Ming and Zhao, Kai and Zhang, Xin-Yu and Yang, Ming-Hsuan and Torr, Philip},
  journal={IEEE TPAMI},
  year={2019}
}

@article{RcfEdgePami2019,
  author = {Yun Liu and Ming-Ming Cheng and Xiaowei Hu and Jia-Wang Bian and Le Zhang and Xiang Bai and Jinhui Tang},
  title = {Richer Convolutional Features for Edge Detection},
  year  = {2019},
  journal= {IEEE TPAMI},
  volume={41}, 
  number={8}, 
  pages={1939 - 1946}, 
  doi = {10.1109/TPAMI.2018.2878849},
}

@InProceedings{Wang_2019_CVPR,
author = {Wang, Yukang and Xu, Yongchao and Tsogkas, Stavros and Bai, Xiang and Dickinson, Sven and Siddiqi, Kaleem},
title = {DeepFlux for Skeletons in the Wild},
booktitle = {CVPR},
month = {June},
year = {2019}
}
@InProceedings{Hu_2018_CVPR,
author = {Hu, Xiaowei and Zhu, Lei and Fu, Chi-Wing and Qin, Jing and Heng, Pheng-Ann},
title = {Direction-Aware Spatial Context Features for Shadow Detection},
booktitle = {CVPR},
month = {June},
year = {2018}
}
@InProceedings{MobileNetV2,
  title = {MobileNetV2: Inverted Residuals and Linear Bottlenecks},
  author    = {Mark Sandler and
               Andrew G. Howard and
               Menglong Zhu and
               Andrey Zhmoginov and
               Liang{-}Chieh Chen},
  booktitle = {CVPR},
  month = {June},
  year = {2018}
}